James George Hooper died at Shrewsbury on March 20th, 1920, at the age of 44 years.
Between September, 1894, and July, 1897, he went through the full engineering course at King’s College, London, where he was granted a certificate in Chemistry. From April, 1898, to July, 1901, he attended the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington, and during that period had three months practical experience at each of the following mines: Dolcoath, Cornwall; Foxdale, Isle of Man; and the Werfa Colliery, in Wales.
He was awarded the R.S.M. Associateship in Mining. In March, 1902, he accompanied Mr. Alexander Hill on a visit of inspection to the Espie Bay Copper Mines in Turkey in Asia, and after an intermediate visit to Italy as assistant to Mr. Hill in his original examination of the Etruscan copper mine, he returned to Asia Minor as assistant manager, and for three months as temporary manager, of the Espie Bay mines until December of the same year. In February, 1903, he accompanied Mr. Hill on a tour of inspection of mines in Spain, and from April to June was engaged on an examination of and report on copper occurrences in Iceland for the United Alkali Co. In October, 1903, he went to Turkey as manager of the Astyra gold mine, Dardanelles, under Mr. Hill, and remained there until March, 1906. Early in 1907, he was engaged by a London syndicate to go to India to examine, open up and report on a gold mining property in Mysore, which occupied about six months. In January, 1908, he was appointed manager of the Concepcion copper mine, Huelva, Spain, a position which he held until 1912.
He then returned to India for about two years, and in 1917 he came to the Van Mine, near Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire. Mr. Hooper was elected a Member of the Institution in 1911.
Vol. 30, Trans IMM 1920-21, p.474
